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An interesting tidbit (hinted at in the article) is that there’s an active effort to reuse old (no longer used) words for new meanings. An example is sími (tele
by woodson 4y ago
An interesting tidbit (hinted at in the article) is that there’s an active effort to reuse old (no longer used) words for new meanings. An example is sími (telephone), an old word for cord/rope. I wonder how well GPT-4 copes with the issue of loanword vs coining new/reusing old terms.
- kaveh_h 4y agoThat’s really interesting as the as the word ’sim’ in modern farsi (persian) also mean cord or line. It seems according to wiktionary (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%ADma#Icelandic https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%ADma#Icelandic) that the Word has Proto-Indo-European roots which is the common ancestor of farsi and European languages. I wonder if it’s possible to introspect or query the model and find out about the etymologi of words. I suspect more context like the phonetic version of each word is needed to make that final connection not just the semantic embedding.
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- woodson 4y agoI suspect (though I may be wrong) that GPT-4 wouldn't provide more insight than what's in the text it was trained on. If prompted by examples of regular sound change or reconstruction of proto-indo-european (PIE) roots, it may be able deduce other PIE word forms.